Sinister racket outside Home Depot that you’re paying for

Taxpayer funded pro-illegal immigration groups are demanding millions of dollars from LA residents to help them attack ICE and fund day laborer hubs near Home Depot sites.

The groups are already getting $1-million-a-year from LA City Council, and are now demanding a $2-million-a-year funding increase to help them fight against ICE operations and maintain buildings outside the hardware stores.

The hubs offer everything from restrooms to free legal services and employment advice to day laborers, all paid for by nonprofits funded by taxpayers.

Socialist councilmember Eunisses Hernandez has backed the move that would see groups like the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) rake in more taxpayer money to support illegals.

“The work centers have been a rescue due to the conditions we have been living in. That’s why I’m asking that the budget be increased to $3 million for these work centers,” Hernandez asked the City’s Budget and Finance Committee in meetings this week.

The extraordinary demands come as LA’s $15 billion budget meetings rage on, meetings that heard police claim they don’t have enough officers or funding to properly secure the 2028 Olympic games.

Susan Collins, a Sherman Oaks resident who has repeatedly spoken out on city spending, pushed back sharply on the proposal to increase funding for day laborer trailers.

“I’m a first-generation American. I support immigration and value what immigrants contribute,” Collins said. “But when the city tells taxpayers there isn’t enough money to keep streetlights on or fix our roads, this is not the moment to triple funding for these trailer programs.”

Quotes from the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees to which the US is still under Trump a party:

Article 23 - Public relief

The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.

Article 17 - Wage-earning employment
....
2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee...who fulfils one of the following conditions:
(a) He has completed three years’ residence in the country;
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(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.

Article 34 - Naturalization [and getting the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]

The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees

Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]

1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....

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What does Trump have to do to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention?

Send (or hand deliver) the Secretary-General of the United Nations a letter!

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Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations:

I, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States, on behalf of the United States, do denounce the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as permitted by Article 44.

Donald J. Trump

“More import tariffs and less Marxist income taxes.”

Most stuff we use should be made in the USA.

We simply shouldn’t be importing:
1. stuff that can be made and packaged by automated equipment
[we should only be importing high comparative advantage products
like sewn garments and other high assembly time consumer products]
2. ferrous products for motor vehicles
[we export few cars - tariffs on automobile grade steel won’t hurt US automakers]
3. aluminum alloys for aircraft
[we need the absolute ability to build warplanes]
4. inputs to make plastic products
[this stuff is made at industrial scale]
5. life-saving drugs and their precursors
[so our sick people can’t be held hostage by anti-American governments]

Primarily low cost-high labor content stuff we can’t make cheaply enough should be imported.

Raw materials should come in mainly tariff free.

I don’t see tariff revenue exceeding $10 billion/year after 2035 under my tariff/reindustrialization plan.

“So, what more can conservatives do?”

More of the same, sadly. We must keep up the heat on the RINO reps and Senators. We must keep our views in the public sphere. We must be active where action is warranted.

In a perfect world, a political majority in both houses of Congress should be enough. Unfortunately, we have elected some pretty wishy-washy ‘conservatives’, and we have to nudge them along to our way of thinking.

What we can’t do is give up the ship.

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